Powerful and Brutal Weapons : : Nixon, Kissinger, and the Easter Offensive / / Stephen P Randolph.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Randolph, Stephen P,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

As America confronts an unpredictable war in Iraq, Randolph returns to an earlier conflict that severely tested our civilian and military leaders. In 1972, America sought to withdraw from Vietnam with its credibility intact, with President Nixon and National Security Advisor Kissinger hoping that gains on the battlefield would strengthen their position at the negotiating table. Randolph's intimate chronicle of the commander-in-chief gains us unprecedented access to how these strategic assessments were made and played out.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. NIXON'S WAR -- 2. THE POLITBURO'S STRATEGIC CALCULUS -- 3. THE NVA PREPARES -- 4. COMMANDO HUNT VII -- 5. THE INITIAL SURGES -- 6. NIXON TAKES CHARGE -- 7. THE FORCES FLOW FORWARD -- 8. B-52s OVER THE NORTH -- 9. ATTACK IN THE HIGHLANDS -- 10. THE FALL OF QUANG TRI -- 11. THE PATH TO LINEBACKER -- 12. CLOSING THE PORTS -- 13. LINEBACKER PLANNING AND DIRECTION -- 14. THE INITIAL STRIKES -- 15. THE DRV RESPONDS -- 16. NIXON TRIUMPHANT -- 17. THE SIEGE OF AN LOC -- 18. THE DEFENSE OF HUE -- 19. THE CENTER HOLDS -- 20. STALEMATE AT THE MY CHANH RIVER -- 21. REACTIVE ADVERSARIES -- 22. THE VIEW FROM HANOI -- 23. "ONE OF THOSE DAYS" -- 24. TOWARD THE PEACE PATH -- CONCLUSION -- WEAPONS AND TACTICS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Index